Edit Essentials by Rampant Design

Hello GALactic friends, Eva here! Are you on a tight schedule and looking for a fast, professional solution to make your video better? I’m going to share with you one of my favorite editing tricks—overlays! Today, you’ll learn how to use the Essentials Pack by Rampant Design Tools, which offers 220 light leaks, film effects, light overlays, flares, light transitions, and more.

I’ve been using overlays and presets by Rampant for years now to add a stylized and professional touch to wedding and corporate projects.

First, create a folder for every category of elements from the pack so that all you have to do later is go in a folder, select the videos, and drag them to the second layer of your timeline.

SCALING

In the video tutorial, I scaled down the clips by reducing the scale of one overlay to 50%, copied the attributes, and pasted them to all of my overlays. I wanted to keep it easy since I was copying and pasting the opacity settings in the same way. But there’s a faster way to scale...

Right click and select Scale to Frame Size if you do not want to retain the ability to pan and scan. If you want to keep the ability to pan and scan, then select Set to Frame Size.

OPACITY & BLENDING

If you want to put the same blending mode on all your overlays (for example, Screen mode)

Click on Opacity in the Effect settingsCopy the informationSelect all of your overlays on the second layer of your timelinePaste the information

Now all your overlays will be set to ‘’Screen’’ mode in the opacity section of the video effects box. You can also reduce the opacity % to make it more subtle or leave it at 100% for a bold look.

COLORS & TINTS

To customize the color overlays

Go to the Effects panel in Premiere Pro and search for Color Balance RGB

Drag and drop it to your overlay clip

Change the Hue and Saturation

STYLE MATTE

This feature is a little more complex to work with but will add a dynamic touch to your videos. You’ll notice that there’s an alpha channel with white shapes and all the rest is transparent. To make your video appear in the white shapes, you have to add a Track Matte key.

Go to Effects and select Track Matte Key

Drag and drop the Track Matte Key on the clip under the Style Matte overlay

In the Effect control section, set your Matte to Alpha

Select which layer your Style Matte is (for example, Layer 2)

Your video should now appear inside the white shapes of the Style Matte overlay. You can easily copy and paste this Track Matte Key information to your video clips on the first layer.

GLITCH TRANSITIONS AND MORE

The Essentials Pack also gives you some sweet glitch transitions, matte transitions, light effects, and more. To use a transition, you have to place it between two clips. Find the brightest moment of the clip (the frame in the clip that is almost perfectly white or full of one color that can cover the clips under) and place it on the second layer where you want the transition. Adjust the blending mode if needed. For these, I’ve sometimes used a Track Matte Key like I showed you above, and it looked so awesome!